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Pardon?? (Update: some have been done) Answered

A brief exchange between myself and Whatsisface utterly confused Keith-Kid, the poor bairn.

That reminded me that, as well as the language confusion between English and American (we walk on pavements, you drive on them), there is a deeper, older division.

I am from Cumberland. It's "Cumbria" now, but it's old - many of the town names are Icelandic and Viking in origin. Parts of the county were so insular that neighbouring valleys had different languages. The town of my birth is Workington - the name translates as "The town of the people of Worca" - the town, and the land around it, were a small tribal state, ruled by King Worca.

So, I thought I'd lay down a little challenge.

What do you think these traditional Cumbrian dialect words mean?

Google if you must, but you're probably wasting your time...

Thissen - yourself, you

Sneck

Shillies

Hag worm

Segs

Scrunt

Tupping

Uppies and downies - Traditional precursor to football. Played at Easter.

kite...you do know that you're single handedly ruining the internet by actually putting something educational on it right?
someone post some porn to equalize the balance....QUICK!
Thissen would be yourself?

Up and Down being directions in a town on a hill. There are no limits on team-size, and matches sometimes last late into the night (the match ends with the first goal), with the ball sometimes only moving inches at a time in the centre of a giant scrum.